thread for discussion of guitarists i have only heard of because i read guitar magazines in the late 90s

I watched that Yngwie "Arpeggios from Hell" video last week. So rad.

Jeez Holdsworth's guitars are some of the ugliest I've ever seen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvouiDJSTUE

^Might be too old, but I know 90s guitar mags tabbed this song out all the time.

Holdsworth is the man. I love a lot of this music. Jeff Beck rules all, obviously

Oh Holdsworth can really play. Like Gambale. Has his own thing going on.

thread of badass guitarists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiXR9ggRdFI

did they talk about danny gatton in late 90s guitar mags?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGGE4CrPvjU

I think there's definitely a subset of players even in a technically minded field like this where you can go, yeah, maybe not my thing, but they've completely fucking mastered that. Be it the fluidity of the playing or not relying on speed or knowing exactly where to speed up. And so on.

xp fuck yes they did but he was dead so they couldn't interview him every other month

danny gatton was really good imo

I posted this in the Yngwie thread but in case you missed what is in my opinion the greatest single thing ever said by a musician in an interview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHZ48AE3TOI

pains me to say this as a good ilx brigade member but Leo Kottke

And here is the part of the thread where UMS breaks my heart into a million bits.

Kottke in his prime pre tendonitis could eat basically every one of these dudes alive. Also bonus points wrote listenable songs and stuff.

god bless yngwie xp

Ha I realize I am uh shall we say biased thx to family history, but I'm speaking from outside of that here.

JJ I love kottke!

re: kottke idk if the guitar press ever knew what to do with him, he's a weirdo and not really the ingratiating type.

also yes he wrote songs in addition to being able to shred.

http://thumbs1.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mlJU-jYkubCgoyMTwjHabKg.jpg
peter lang

I know about like 95% of the dudes in this thread because of my high school guitar teacher. I always thought nearly all of them were terrible and used to just kind of grin and grit my teeth through listening to them/talking about them. He was also really into this duo called Tuck & Patti (guitarist Tuck Andress) who I continue to find pretty embarrassing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIVjCJ3jNDw

Even as my tastes have "mellowed" and "matured" I continue to find almost all of the music in this thread pointless.

Two things I know about Tuck & Patti:
* St. Vincent is related to one of them (a niece I think)
* Jim Carrey wrote a song for them that they recorded

tuck andress is def one of these guys. i lol'd when i found out he is annie clark's uncle.

He was also into this "unsung" guy called Danny Gatton (no one ever mentions Danny Gatton without talking about how unsung he was).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUpP7CnW4yA

Kinda cool, certainly could play, but honestly it's not really surprising why this no-style-having dude playing country-pickin and blues in the 80s was "unsung."

Tuck the uncle of Annie Clark iirc.

My guitar teacher was a nice and pretty cool guy and also had no style. His only criterion was "that cat can play." He would praise literally anyone who could play their instrument well.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PXYGyIKFoo0/UXsL_RcplFI/AAAAAAAABEk/rVhEybOUcGo/s1600/GP-Thurston.JPG

Gatton was a genius. Search for some clip with him, Alvin Lee and Vince Gill, the latter two unsung but as good as anyone.

Albert Lee sorry.

did they talk about danny gatton in late 90s guitar mags?
http://www.youtube.com/v/mGGE4CrPvjU&fs=1&hl=en

― brimstead, Thursday, May 15, 2014 7:13 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Haha I thought so m@tt I just parsed the way you said that wrong, sorry dude!

Kottke in person is a very sweet odd dude (wrt that press deal), he once told my dad after I fell down and banged my head as a 2 yr old or so on something that he should buy me a crash helmet and my dad laughed and then realized that Leo was completely serious.

One Way Rider - Albert Lee, Vince Gill & Danny Ga…: http://youtu.be/O8ljrPfsa50

Kinda cool, certainly could play, but honestly it's not really surprising why this no-style-having dude playing country-pickin and blues in the 80s was "unsung."

Who does he sound like, though? I mean, you can definitely hear his influences sure, but no style?!? I think he's unsung because instrumental guitar music has not been popular in several decades, duh

Also UMS in service of my endless attempts to get you into the shop to hang out, if you show up I'll play you a bunch of kottke live as a 17-19 year old, shit is nuts. I'll even throw in live fahey rambling on about the weird contents of his head, tuning forever, and then banging out crazy awesome 15 minute raga drones, rinse, repeat.

honestly he sounds a lot like the dude on the right in that video (vince gill?)

no

Gatton was far from unsung in guitar nerd world in the late 80s, but no one outside of that cared much. Dude who knew him and worked on his fender signature guitar straight up told me that the depression/suicide was 100% based on realizing he was never going to escape that level, which is a huge bummer.

Vince Gill can shred by the way. I had no idea til one of those crossroads shows. Brad Paisley his modern heir.

Gatton was also kind of the last of the Atkins/Clark/reed sorta dudes in country, super effortless.

http://youtu.be/ND2NFtImjlY

Vince Gill & Brad Paisley - "Workin' Man Blues": http://youtu.be/-cm8hgoLc80

i wouldn't call vince gill unsung, though. his chops are the stuff of legend in nashville.

Gatton was far from unsung in guitar nerd world in the late 80s, but no one outside of that cared much. Dude who knew him and worked on his fender signature guitar straight up told me that the depression/suicide was 100% based on realizing he was never going to escape that level, which is a huge bummer.

― Everyone is awful except you. Wait, no, you are also awful. (jjjusten), Thursday, May 15, 2014 10:56 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeesh

Yep

That is extremely sad, but it's not exactly surprising that a guitarist's guitarist is never going to go beyond being a guitarist's guitarist, particularly if he plays in styles that are out of step with the pop music of the day. Seems similar to being a jazz musician or something, possible even a little better in that I bet he could play bigger venues than jazzers.

Jeez guys, hate to interrupt this bring-down fest (I finally listened to a Danny Gatton record last year and couldn't latch on to it at all), but thread is seriously missing Guy Mann Dude

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zEi3yXy_5g

Is Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo from Daft Punk a hat-tip to this guy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIhoG6cS-3Y

Blues Saraceno

(later temporarily in Poison)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH4hzTOxJVA

Richie Kotzen

(also temporarily in Poison)

Marty Friedman / Jason Becker